Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina, sentence 51

Then he flew down with her from the tree, and placed her on a daisy, and she wept at the thought that she was so ugly that even the cockchafers would have nothing to say to her.

Who acts: cockchafer, Tiny, cockchafers · What happens: fly down, place, weep, be, have, say · To what, where: tree, Tiny, daisy, thought, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Little Tiny or Thumbelina. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cockchafer, Tiny, cockchafers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 flew	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 flew	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 tree	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 placed	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 placed	cc
12	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 placed	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 daisy	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 daisy	det
16	daisy	daisy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 placed	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wept	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wept	cc
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 wept	nsubj
20	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 flew	conj
21	at	at	ADP	_	23 thought	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 thought	det
23	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 wept	obl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 ugly	mark
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 ugly	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 ugly	cop
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 ugly	advmod
28	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 wept	advcl
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 have	mark
30	even	even	ADV	_	32 cockchafers	advmod
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 cockchafers	det
32	cockchafers	cockchafer	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 have	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 have	aux
34	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 ugly	advcl
35	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	34 have	obj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 say	mark
37	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 nothing	acl
38	to	to	ADP	_	39 her	case
39	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 say	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly down	past	cockchafer			the tree	then	with Tiny; down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=Trajectory
2	place	past	cockchafer not said here	Tiny		a daisy			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme on daisy=Destination
3	weep	past	Tiny			the thought			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	Tiny					ugly property	tree rules
5	have	would	the cockchafers	nothing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
6	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	the cockchafers not said here	nothing not said here	Tiny				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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